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Libellula auripennis, the golden-winged skimmer, is a species of skimmer in the family Libellulidae. [3] [4] It is found in North America. [4] Conservation.
Pantala flavescens, [3] the globe skimmer, globe wanderer or wandering glider, [1] is a wide-ranging dragonfly of the family Libellulidae. [1] This species and Pantala hymenaea, the "spot-winged glider", are the only members of the genus Pantala. It was first described by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1798. [4]
golden-winged skimmer: North and Central America Libellula axilena Westwood, 1837: bar-winged skimmer: North America Libellula comanche Calvert, 1907: Comanche skimmer: Central America and North America Libellula composita (Hagen, 1873) bleached skimmer: North America. Libellula croceipennis Selys, 1869: neon skimmer: North and Central America
The chasers, darters, skimmers, and perchers and their relatives form the Libellulidae, the largest family of dragonflies. [2] It is sometimes considered to contain the Corduliidae as the subfamily Corduliinae and the Macromiidae as the subfamily Macromiinae. Even if these are excluded (as Silsby does), there remains a family of over 1000 species.
Libellula quadrimaculata, known in Europe as the four-spotted chaser and in North America as the four-spotted skimmer, is a dragonfly of the family Libellulidae found widely throughout Europe, Asia, and North America. The adult stage is found between April and early September in the United Kingdom, and from mid-May to mid-August in Ireland.
Libellula jesseana adults are about 5 centimeters long. The male is pruinescent blue on the thorax and abdomen with orange wings. The female may have a similar coloration to the male, or have a golden hue overall identical to Libellula auripennis, the golden-winged skimmer.
changeable jungle-skimmer [7] Cameroon, Central African Republic, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Uganda, and Zambia. Hadrothemis vrijdaghi Schouteden, 1934: Golden-winged Jungleskimmer: Democratic Republic of the Congo
Libellula needhami, or Needham's skimmer, is a species of skimmer in the family of dragonflies known as Libellulidae. [2] [3] [4] [5] It is found in the Bahamas, Cuba ...